All 16 Uses of
cease
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- But on the last day an astonishing number of English heavies opened up on us with high-explosive, drumming ceaselessly on our position, so that we suffered severely and came back only eighty strong.†
Chpt 1
- Everyone knows that drill ceases only in the frontline and begins again a few miles behind, with all absurdities of saluting and parade.
Chpt 3ceases = stops or discontinues
- Things become quieter, but the cries do not cease.
Chpt 4 *cease = stopped
- The shelling has ceased, I turn towards the crater and beckoning to the others.
Chpt 4ceased = stopped or discontinued
- When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn.†
Chpt 6
- Our artillery fires on it continually, but still it does not cease.
Chpt 6cease = stop or discontinue
- Suddenly the nearer explosions cease.
Chpt 6
- The fight ceases.
Chpt 6ceases = stops or discontinues
- Their pale turnip faces, their pitiful clenched hands, the fine courage of these poor devils, the desperate charges and attacks made by the poor brave wretches, who are so terrified that they dare not cry out loudly, but with battered chests, with torn bellies, arms and legs only whimper softly for their mothers and cease as soon as one looks at them.
Chpt 6cease = stop or discontinue
- Now we freeze, it is autumn, the leaves rustle, the voices flutter out wearily: "One—two—three—four—" and cease at thirty-two.
Chpt 6
- The voices cease and the violin continues alone.
Chpt 8
- Unceasing.†
Chpt 9
- My hands are white at the knuckles, I clench them so tightly in my longing for the fire to cease so that my comrades may come.
Chpt 9cease = stop or discontinue
- The bullets hiss, they make a steel net, never ceasing, never ceasing.
Chpt 9ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- The bullets hiss, they make a steel net, never ceasing, never ceasing.
Chpt 9
- The body is still perfectly still, without a sound, the gurgle has ceased, but the eyes cry out, yell, all the life is gathered together in them for one tremendous effort to flee, gathered together there in a dreadful terror of death, of me.
Chpt 9ceased = stopped or discontinued
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue